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“DO NOT be afraid, just ask us if we need help” is a message the disabled wish to convey to the public.

IN her 1933 essay Three Days to See, Helen Keller (1880-1968) described what she would do if she were suddenly to have vision: “I should like to look into the loyal, trusting eyes of my dogs.”
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Nearly half of Tokyo’s residents can’t name a single Paralympian and international sporting officials are worried about the city’s readiness to accommodate athletes. As the 2020 Games approaches, the Japanese capital has work to do.

ustralia made it the best,” says 15-year-old para athlete Kailyn Joseph of her Commonwealth Games experience. The Australian long-jumper, who has cerebral palsy, was one of an unprecedented number of athletes with disability who competed at the Games on the Gold Coast – there were nearly 300 in total, 73% more than in Glasgow four years ago.

As another World Autism Week comes to a close, we wonder what will be the next step for autistic Malaysians. The growing knowledge of autism is there. We should look at how we can integrate autistic people into society.

Hong Leong Assurance (HLA) has launched HLA Premier Millions, a protection plan with a seamless process of recovery from advanced cancer. Under the Advanced Cancer Care Rider, policyholders are entitled to an annual limit of US$1mil (RM4mil) worth of overseas medical treatment for advanced cancer, with the ability for multiple claims within the same year.

I am the parent of a five-year-old boy with profound hearing loss on both ears. We found out about his condition when he was one year and eight months old, and we have frantically searched for ways to help him overcome his disability since then.

The Barisan Nasional (BN) government is always sensitive to human capital development including the needs of disabled people (OKU).

It’s a bit of a lifeline, a chance to share a conversation, an opportunity to feel part of something. However, living on the first floor of a housing block, I have a new incarcerator, whose reliability is often very poor – the lift.

Microsoft Malaysia, in collaboration with We Rock the Spectrum Gym, today organised an Hour of Code to commemorate the World Autism Awareness Day 2018. The event hosted children on the autism spectrum to introduce coding through its Hour of Code Minecraft tutorial.